You look up at the taller woman in front of you, before finally nodding. ...You believe her, you tell her. You didn't mean to call her trustworthiness into question, it's just that you've been lied to and deliberately kept in the dark for so many times that you often find it hard to differentiate between friend and foe.

"...Ah." Kharn's face, earlier a mask of guilt-ridden desperation, turns to one of genuine sorrow. "That is...ah, Murderface, that is lamentable." Before you can even react, she pulls you into another hug again, and you're once more smothered by the sheer physical evidence of her motherhood. But before you can attempt to squirm your way out of it, she releases you, giving you a full view of her unnatural eyes brimming with tears.

That's...twice in your life that you've seen someone like Kharn cry, and it never stopped being disturbing.

Kharn must have noticed it in your reaction, however, as she blinks at you in surprise - before half-snorting, half-chuckling through her sobbing as she releases you, one clawed hand snatching wads of tissue from the box on your bedstand. "A-ah. This is...I apologize for showing you something this dreadful, Murderface. Souji told me that it is all part of being with child. Mood swings, being maudlin for the slightest reason, crying every now and then like a simpering child."

She sniffs here, dabbing at her eyes, before blowing her nose delicately into the now-sodden mess. "Hormones. This will pass. But...ah, even in my worst days, even when I was disgraced, I knew who was on my side, at least. I...I cannot hope to imagine how terrible it must been for you."

You allow to regain her composure before nodding. It's...well, it's been rough, but you're here now. You're just trying to connect the dots as much as you can, even though you're clearly missing handfuls of them, and the picture slowly being revealed isn't something you'd want to see in any kid's drawing book. Or any book for that matter.

"I...I can imagine." Kharn nods again. "Is...how much do you remember? Did Yuma tell you anything before she...?"

How do you respond?

[]Be honest. Everything that matters. And yes, Yuma told you everything about what happened.[]Keep things close to your chest for now, just in case. Tell her that you remember enough. Pretend that Yuma didn't get to tell you anything, at least nothing of note.

>>44619654>4chan from workThat's the kind of stuff that gets people promoted around here. People other than you, that is. I will read the archive when I get back.Meanwhile, don't make any stupid decisions. Please.

You decide to be honest. Everything that matters, you tell her. And yes, Yuma told you everything what happened before she died.

"...Aha, I...I see." Kharn's face goes pale, and she makes her way back to your bed in unsteady, clanking footsteps - the black-haired Russian seating herself on the edge of the thin mattress in a heavy, slackening slump, as if she'd been some sort of murderpuppet that just had its strings cut. "Then...then you do know of...my failing, then." She hangs her head low, her hair forming a curtain over her eyes and face, as if both in shame and both in her inability to meet your gaze. "What I let happen. What I let happen to you." She chuckles miserably here - a low, slow sound, the sound of someone who had just had their failures displayed to the entire world before being executed for it.

"That is...well, I was expecting for you to remember eventually, or someone to have told you the entire story, but...hah. You will forgive me for hoping that my skeletons would be long buried and forgotten, at least for the people I care about."

It's one hell of a skeleton, you tell Kharn. The kind that never stays buried for long. Even if she expended every effort to have it forgotten, it'll come back, like a certain pink-haired nightmare that always finds a way to haunt your dreams.

The Russian nods. "I...thought I was going to win, you know." She swallows hard. "When I saw you being attacked, being hurt...I went in there with my usual...confidence. My hubris. I did not even think of calling for aid, or even notifying Malal when all I had to do was to think a single thought, and she would be there." She presses both clawed hands to her face. "Not one second did I think that there was more of the assassins lying in wait, waiting to pounce, waiting for me to swallow the bait whole and present myself to be slaughtered."

"I simply jumped in there with my chainsword, hoping that my own blade and my own desperation would see me through. I have never tasted failure before then, after all. What is caution but the hesitation of those cursed to be weaker, less skilled, less honed for battlecraft like I am?" Her eyes lit up briefly in reminiscence. "I was Valnikov Kharn. I was the Warmaster of one of the most powerful Officios that had ever existed. I was feared, I was respected, I was loved. I was a hero."

She chuckles again. "And yet, when it truly counted, when it truly mattered...I was as useless as the greenest, most inexperienced initiate. Not only that, but I turned into something that..." Kharn's voice cracks as she looks away. "...Something that I should have been executed for, if it had not been for my best friend's dying wish."

Two black orbs, brimming with tears, finally look up to meet yours.

"It is well in your right for you to hate me, Murderface, or even seek my own death as repayment. It will be no less than I deserve." She smiles at you, pleadingly, before placing her clawed hands on her stomach. "I only ask that you allow me to, aha, do something right with my life for once. Then, when they are born into this world, then you can take your revenge as you see fit. I will gladly go into my grave knowing that I did my best to pay for my sins."

How do you react?

[]Forgive her. Not in the business of making orphans, Kharn. There's enough of those already.[]Simply shake your head. It doesn't matter what I feel about it at this point. I just wish you could have told me instead of jerking me around.

>>44620264>[]Simply shake your head. It doesn't matter what I feel about it at this point. I just wish you could have told me instead of jerking me around."Try and do right by your kids. Either I am going to make it or not, taking revenge on you isn't going to sweeten the pot in any way for anyone still drawing breath."

>>44620264>[]Forgive her. Not in the business of making orphans, Kharn. There's enough of those already."You could have told me earlier, Kharn, but I understand is not an easy thing to talk about, specially with the person you failed to protect." Then, with a smile, tell her: "You are forgiven, idiot. Give me a hug"

>>44620264>[X]Forgive her. Not in the business of making orphans, Kharn. There's enough of those already.The betrayer live up to her namesake, but she's still our comrade. As well as our old boss. Killing her wouldn't look good on our resume.

>>44620353We just barely managed dodging the entire existing race of incubators wanting us dead with every single fiber of their being.I think we eradicated our resume with the righteous fires of a thousand of the Emperor's most elite legions already.

Hey, anons. Considering the subject that Kharn has brought, you think she will tell us who orchestated the attack? I mean, most likely she doesn´t know, but there is a possibility that in recent years she discovered it. I would like to finally know the truth.

>>44620506What? Mami? Why the hell she would do something like that? It´s true that she has betrayed Chiaki, but only after her transformation in the Devil. Some yeras ago she didn´t have any motives to try and kill Chiaki (well, Murderface)

>>44620556Yeah, it can be, but all in all, there is absolutely NO EXPLANATION of who did it. It could have been someone from the Third for revenge, but other theories where that it was Strauss to get back at Malal for what she did in Varrigan city, or it could have been Prime, a high-rank Callidus from the 20th.

You take the box of tissues from your bedstand and place it on her lap. She flinches at this - seemingly expecting something a bit more harsher - before blinking in complete, tear-drenched surprise at you.

She's forgiven, you tell her. You're not in the business of making orphans. Grieving parents, maybe, but that's only after them having tried to put you in the ground first. ...Or when you're paid to. Whatever.

"Murderface..." Kharn makes a choking sound here. "Truly...? For all of that?"

You nod. Granted, you're still not quite clear about everything that happened - but you do know that there's no sense in lamenting about it when there's so much other shit to worry about. What with everything being your fucking fault to begin with, anyway. So yeah, who are you to ask for reparations for something like that? That'd just be you being a complete hypocrite, wouldn't it?

"N-no. Of course not." The Russian's sunless eyes go wide, staring, as she shakes her head in denial. "This would not be hypocritical, you have suffered enough--"

You shake your head and hold up your hand to silence her. It doesn't matter, you say as you cut her off. What matters is the job in front of you. You're going to do that and go home, and you're not going to let what happened in the past trip you up. You'll worry about that when the job's done.

Besides, what's taking revenge on her going to do for you? Or to anyone still drawing breath? It's not going to sweeten the pot any for you or for them. It's certainly not going to matter if you don't make it, since no one will.

You glance down at her stomach, covered by her bladed hands.

...If she's that set on paying penance, then she can at least try and do right by her kids. Like not naming them something embarrassing. Something normal, like those for regular jackoffs or high-salaried dildoes.

"Murderface, I..." Kharn shakes her head, smiling. "You...you really have changed. I always thought revenge was a fire in your belly, if not your soul, but this..." She laughs, a soft, hoarse exhalation of relief. "...I do not know how to deal with this new Murderface. No, this Chiaki, who does not yearn for vengeance the same way she yearns for certain breakfast items." She thinks for a moment, before gesturing to Midori's sleeping form. "Ah, so does that mean you are sanguine with her fate, then? You do not wish revenge on that who did this to her?"

You look at Kharn blankly for a few moments before shaking your head.

Oh, no, for fuck's sake, no. You've changed, sure, but you didn't turn into someone who'd simply bend over and let Fate fuck them in the ass like that.

Whoever did this to your Midori is going to die. That's not even a prediction or a prognostication or whatever, but a promise.

The Russian smiles one of her trademark smiles. "As relieved as I am, I am thankful we did not lose you entirely, Murderface. It would be such a waste if we did." She shakes her head, before reaching out to run her fingers down your once-again waist-length hair. "We should really give you a haircut, this is nearly as long as it was when you were first Girl A, and..." She blinks, before seemingly reminding herself of something. "A-ah, yes. I nearly forgot. Do you have a suspect of your own? A suspect of who did this to Hanegawa?"

How do you respond?

[]None at the moment, but investigations are ongoing. At least, until you get back into your costume and have a gun in your hand again.[]Shake your head, and ask Kharn if she does. She sounds like she knows something.

>>44620779aw crapbaskets, this is doubly bad when kharn inevitably sends us, probably in an unholy rage of 1000 suns, after her, it will be triply bad when she accidentlys her golden musket to defend herself when we go full flesh of fallen angels.

>>44620734>You've changed, sure, but you didn't turn into someone who'd simply bend over and let Fate fuck them in the ass like that.Lewd.>[X]Shake your head, and ask Kharn if she does. She sounds like she knows something.>Please.

>>44620832anon you don't quite get it, chiaki is pretty much as attached to midori, as homura is to madoka, if anything is gonna make us go full akuma homu, its this between literally losing midori to what we consider the single worst thing that anyone can imagine, and this deeply retarded betrayal by mami because she can't stop being an insecure twit. seriously, the worst part is mami is going to know exactly how bad she fucked up, and theres not a single damn thing she could do to stop the reprocussions about it.we are talking about the 9th will probably mobilize to save her ass and every single person in the 9th officio will die a horrible death level of rage.

>>44620875We only have a slim chance to get a good end out of this. Maybe we can get the watermelon end. Maybe Midori will be fine.

If so, maybe we can confront Mami and tell her there's only one way for her to pay for what she's done. Then we'll laminate her panties. Or maybe everything's fucked beyond repair, everyone dies, and we're stuck with an ended universe and TTO's smug hairflips.

Alternatively, what if it wasn't actually Mami and we're being tricked?

>>44620972For a while now I was sort of expecting the golden ending (no pun intended) for the quest being that we purify Madoka and pull whatever bullshit Homura did to Madoka in Rebellion on ourself, letting Akuma Homura reuinite with Goddess Madoka while simultaneously allowing Chiaki Matsuda to remain with Midori and Wendy.

You blink at Kharn, before shaking your head. ...Didn't she get the memo? You just woke up from a nine-day coma. You're still catching up to fucking...well, everything. And it's only been, what, a handful of minutes since you were told about what happened. So no, you don't have a suspect yet. Not until you can get back in your costume and ask some other people some more questions.

It...sounds like she has some in mind, though.

"Ah, me?" The Russian points to herself with one wickedly-clawed finger, before smiling. "...Well, yes and no. I have little evidence and even less of a potential motive, to be sure, and such accusations cannot be made without substantial amounts of those. And in this case, both must also be decisive and irrefutable. But..."

But? You frown at her, finding her habit of letting her sentences hang in the air just irritating enough to snap at. But what?

Kharn smiles sadly at you. "...Well, I realize you have forgiven me, Murderface, and truly, I am thankful for that, but I believe that what I will say next may make you want to change your mind." She lets out a sigh. "Again, I tell you that I have no proof nor any strong reason to believe this, but...call it a former Warmaster's gut instinct. Or maybe call it a pregnant woman's illogical, hormone-fueled musings. But I think this - what happened to Hanegawa - has been inflicted by none other than Tomoe Mami."

...What?

You blink at her, before frowning. Frowning the hardest you've ever frowned ever since you can remember.

Is... is this some sort of fucking joke?

How do you respond?

[]Bullshit. Utter fucking bullshit. I forgave you earlier, Kharn, but that doesn't give you a fucking right to accuse people like that. Especially Mami.[]Say that again and I'll break the promise I just made and make Souji a widow. Right here, right now.[]Swallow back your rising anger and ask her to explain before you fucking explode.

>>44620992this, all thats gonna happen is we are gonna just step in larger and larger piles of shit as time goes on, like it turns out pinky is only a small portion of the amount of fucked akuma homu made the multiverse and we have to go off fixing every universes madoka like this, and THEN go deal with our genocidal, omnipotent version of ourself.

>>44621032>and make Souji a widowwait Souji is a girl?this makes a lot more sense actually>[X]Swallow back your rising anger and ask her to explain before you fucking explode.>[X]Yeah. Sure. It's not like I liked whiskey and pancakes or anything.

>But instead of the twisted evil being you saw >shambling towards Mami, you see only a >young woman, with her blonde hair tied into >twintails. Holding onto two pistols, scared out >of her wits. Staring at you as if you were >death itself. Silently pleading to be saved.>The witch's mark engraved brightly on her >forehead.

And then we shot her without hesitation. Good old times. I'm not sure what that's supposed to be. At first a witch, then a girl with witch's kiss, then drops grief seed. And Mami seemed to try to stop us, even though she orchestrated the thing. Mumi mastermind doing reverse psychology, or decu's retcon?

You choke back your rising anger and ask Kharn to explain herself. Before...before you fucking explode.

Seriously, Mami? Tomoe Mami? Is she fucking with you right now? The one person who would be completely blameless? The person who looked out for you ever since she rescued you from that barrier? Not to mention that she was on the fucking Moon when it happened! On the goddamn literal Moon, visiting the First in their fucking moon palace or whatever! How could she have--

"I know, I know, it sounds impossible, even to me," Kharn tries, desperate to get a word in amongst your feverish denials. "Believe me when I say I wish it was someone else. I keep trying to convince myself that it may be an enemy of the Officio, an enemy of Kyuubey's, or someone who had enmity with Hanegawa to begin with. Like...like an agent of the Tenth, which everyone else seems to be suspecting. But...but I cannot. It always comes back to her. It always comes back to Tomoe Mami."

Then HOW? The question leaves your lips in a snarl, and you hear the security detail outside stiffen at your outburst. How the fuck is she arriving at this conclusion, with no proof and no fucking motive?!

Despite seeing her earlier react with as much emotion as someone like her possibly could, you didn't think for one second that you could intimidate Kharn. She was, after all, intimidation incarnate, being as tall and as lethally-made as a killing machine with blades for legs and arms. But surprisingly, your outburst makes her hesitate, stunning her into silence, if only for a brief moment - before she replies.

"Think for a moment, Murderface. Who among us is truly a Magical Girl that fits the name? Who among us is not just a murderer in a cute costume, blessed with strength and invulnerability? Who among us lives to the ideal of a real Magical Girl, a real paragon of hope and truth, who can inspire with a smile as many people as she can save with one pull of a trigger?"

She stands up from Midori's bedside to tower over you, her lethal hands slack by her sides.

"Who among us is a real hero, who would sacrifice everything to save everyone, even if it meant killing someone she had nurtured and healed like her own child? Think, Murderface. Do not focus on whether or not she could have done it, think if she would have instead. Focus on the possibility that she would."

You shake your head. But then, if it was really her, why aren't you dead? Why aren't you fucking atomized already? Why is it Midori and not you?

"Because she obviously failed," Kharn presses. "Hanegawa tried to save you, and she succeeded. She saw what was going to happen and gave herself to get you back here, Murderface. Think."

How do you react?

[]Deny. No. No. Bullshit. That doesn't make sense. She wouldn't. Mami wouldn't. You're as fucking crazy as Risa - no, even worse than Risa. And she's FOREIGN, for fuck's sake![]Doubt. No, she can't. That...no way. There has to be someone else. I don't believe you. Mami would have found another way.[]Keep silent about your judgement. Let Kharn continue talking.

>>44621538Get your head out of your ass. If Mami dies and we have ANYTHING to do with it, the entire meguca world will be after our head, and there will be no end possible for us besides death and failure.

>>44621562Did you miss the part where we're still a long ways off from anything close to omnipotence?

>>44621567Exactly what I'm advocating. We don't kill her. We don't even have to physically harm her. We just need to hurt the image of herself in her mind. Destroy her self-confidence. Make her our bitch. And use her as a tool.

>>44621587>Did you miss the part where we're still a long ways off from anything close to omnipotence?Well, if the Dolls survived Homu ripping them limb from limb after the Silent Room went dark (I'd expect them to, really), after popping out the wings again I'd just tell them to murk a few incubators the stealthy way and make some nails with fluffy bunny heads.

>>44621622I think Mami should just be sobered up for a few minutes, then slapped around for a while and shouted at. I get the feeling that fter twenty minutes of that she'll cry herself to sleep over her actions anyway.

>>44621657>That's a watch-wearing dildo compromise, but I'll accept it.The real watch-wearing dildo way would be to make her marry someone. We tried that with Kharn and Souji after our fragmentation in Siberia and it worked, look at her now.

>>44621672I thought she just wears slutty dress and talks about eternal love.

Jesus you guys. I'm honestly so worn out by all the fuckery and shit throughout this quest that quite frankly I don't even want to kill Mami anymore. I just want to kill whoever the fuck told Mami where to find us and sent her on her way and what to do.

Maybe the bitch who gave her a golden weapon? You know, one of the things that are all about corrupting people and shit?

Nah, fuck saving people and maybe actually cracking into what all this Blessed Lady church shit is about, let's proceed to Murderface the joint up. I never wanted the good end anyways.

Never have you wanted so badly to shut someone up before. Sure, you've had to deal with a couple of loudmouths here and there, and you've permanently silenced a few in your career. That of course includes the Eversor from the Third that couldn't keep her big yap shut about Mami - and that resulted in pretty much her entire Officio being dismantled. After having its leadership and most of its top officers being slaughtered, of course.

For Kharn to accuse Mami like this - to accuse her of having a hand in Midori's current state - well, suffice to say that even with your promise earlier, you're finding it very fucking hard to stay your hand. Out of all the Magical Girls in the world, she had to accuse the one that you respect the most? The one who stuck with you when no one else would? The one besides Midori who actually gave more than two shits about you?

"You are...you are making a very scary face, there, Murderface, and I have to say I am, ah, feeling the heebie-jeebies from it." She giggles nervously at her own joke, before shaking her head. "But this has to be done, no matter how much you glare at me and wish me dead. I know this seems like I am taking advantage of your mercy by saying this now, but I have to tell you this - because everyone else has been keeping you in the dark."

The Russian gestures towards Midori's motionless form. "She tried to save you, like she did in Siberia. And she gave herself again, just like she did then. By all rights, she should be dead, but the Blessed Lady interceded. Again, like last time. But those are just not the parallels here, Murderface. There is one more, one more aspect in the circle that you are missing."

You look at her, and murmur the answer that comes to your mind, feeling it turn rancid and bitter in your mouth.

"By me." Kharn gestures to herself now, one clawed hand over her breasts. "Someone close to you, someone who fought side by side with you and called you comrade. Someone who called you friend." She smiles, a sad and wan thing. "Of course, I do not pretend to be as close to you as Mami was, nor I am the perfect friend Sakura is to you, but I saw you as someone I...I needed to protect. Until...until I could not control my baser urges any longer."

"My nature is to fight, Murderface. To seek opponents stronger than me, more powerful than me, and cross blades with them. To revel in that dance of death and desperation, until I am covered in blood and brandishing a trophy skull to the skies in triumph. Friend or foe, it does not matter whence the blood flows or the skulls be reaped from - it only matters that it does." Kharn hangs her head for a moment, before looking up to stare at you directly.

"Life is a series of cylical incidents, Murderface. Life itself is a cycle. We find ourselves repeating our own mistakes, even if we tell ourselves that we've learned from them. Often, it is because of someone else, someone weak and cowardly. Other times....well, it is easier to blame God, I think. God or karma or an unfeeling, cruel universe. But it happens, and sometimes all we can do is close our eyes and hope we do not lose too many teeth in the process of having our faces smashed into reality."

"Do you...finally understand, Murderface? Or do I need to spell it out to you?" She laughs, a shameful kind of laugh, like the sort a friend would make after spitting out a very cruel, shameful joke.

>>44621808I would hazard a guess that she is telling us that Mami is doing this because it is in her nature to do so.

Not that she is a betrayer but rather there is something deep in her psyche that drives her to this decision.

Mami pretends to be this because she wants to think she has improved from whatever she was in the past. But she never really did. Much like Kharn pretended to have moved past her bloodthirsty days, it never really happened.

Next step is to find some hard evidence. Chiaki would be feeling confused as shit right now, not ready for collecting Risa points. Like it or not, we're Warmaster Chiaki Giant Dildo Magical Girl Satan Matsuda. Not Murderface, not Kharn when she was Warmaster, and not Kirika.

>>44621755"So you're saying that last time when I was in the barrier, Midori jumped in to save me, and inside said barrier there was a betrayer. You.Now this time I was in the barrier, and Midori jumped in to save me, but there was a betrayer again, who wasn't you this time. It was Mami."

>>44621869A fair point. Kharn isn't really the best psychologist. I'm also leaning heavily on meta knowledge of Mami too. We know that's what drives her in the canon works and I'm happy to presume the same here.

>>44621868Speaking of which, is Kharn still sexually aggressive minus the cap or what?

>>44621939No, it does make sense. Chiaki wouldn't kill Midori, not even her fragments would after all that has happened since then.The Blessed Lady wouldn't since she's in cahoots with Midorin. Ergo, someone with practically unlimited access to 9th Officio shit and alo huge, horrendous amounts of power must be the culprit.

This time around it wasn't Kharn, and the Rank leaders were all in cahoots with Midori, so the only person left over is Mami. It's like Sherlock says: if you rule out all impossible avenues, whatever is left over, no matter how incomprehensibly stupid or improbable, must be the correct answer.

Jesus gone for months and people want to blow out kharns, who is a broken woman by now literally and figuratively kneecaps, because she suspects mumi, whom has been too perfect this entire fucking quest.

God I bet your the same people who chose to rush in durring the first siberia bullshit and the same people who chose timestop with qb to show him pinks

Fate has always fucked Chiaki, and what greater way to fuck us is to have Mumi to be the one with the Dildo

>>44621976To be fair, it's perfectly within Chiaki's character to be violently opposed to so much as the idea that Mami could do wrong. She basically exterminated an entire Officio because one of its members shittalked Mami.

It's going to be painful, but I think it's finally time for Chiaki to grow past that.

>>44621988Murderface was about to waifu Iori before a certain soul gem got licked.

>>44621973Dealing with Mami is a situation that has to be handled with care, not kneecapping Kharn, slaughtering a room full of guards, and leaving a bloody trail across twenty officios that ends in Mami's head lopped off with a chainaxe.

>>44621971But if it was Mami, a fuckton of people would have seen her. And if nobody in the Officio saw her going to the containment room, that means she didn't do it. How would she get past all the guards and staff without being seen? And if whoever was responsible for the betrayal could pull something like that off, that means it could have been anyone with abilities as an infiltrator, and it didn't even need to be someone from the same Officio.

>>44622007Well, I'm also the guy who wants to make Mami our bitch, break her pride, and make her gift Kharn a pair of used panties, because all of that would be fittingly ironic and sexy punishment for her sins.

>>44622029It couldn't have been just anyone with the abilities of an infiltrator. They lack the sheer mindfucking power that Mami had to have to make this kind of impact once inside. Plus, if Mami softly asks to, nobody sees her either, or at least swiftly forgets that they did. As i said, nobody but her has the kind of All Area Access necessary to pull this shit off.

... and if you forgot, Wendy is Mami's bitch. Literally. Anywhere Wendy walks into, Mami could have been trailing ten steps behind, cloaked by her Callidus assasin servant.

Mami betrayed Wendy too, in that barrier. And she knows it. That is why she went and removed the Ribbon that Wendy wore around her neck as a symbol of Mami's dominance; she broke her trust and betrayed her sub, so she regarded herself as undeserving of bein her dom anymore.

Mami knows that she's a sinner. And after Midoris infodump-blast, now she knows she became one for completely retarded reasons, too.

>>44622029One mumi is literally one of the strongest girls around, so she should have no problem infiltrating a room in the building she knows like the back of her hand. Two why would it look out of place for her to go to a containment room, Who would question her?, Three ribbons lots and lots of ribbons. ribbon clones, ribbons through airduckts, she could proboly turn her self into the ribbon we use to tie chiakis pony tail.

1) Interview Wendy to confirm suspicions2) Interview Coobs (don't forget to remind him that he lied about not knowing where Chiaki's amnesia came from, that's some plan he hatched together with Malal the smarmy cunt)3) Kick him in the nuts and make him tell Chiaki in which basement they have dumped Mami off so she can cry on her lonesome for her misdeeds (fucking implying moon, my fat ass she's on the moon)4) Interview Mami5) Make hard decisions all on your lonesome.

>>44622165Oh, boy. You´re so right, anon. Sadly, I doubt we will have the chance to do all that. If we are going to interview Mami, and we show clear murder intentions, QB is going to make that interview with heavy security, and us tied or something like that

>>44622197Unlike you, Kharn is aware that this is a story about heroes, and hero stories always follow certain patterns, and she wouldn't have lived as long as she did by not knowing when to act dramatic to up her Narrative Causality Survival Probability stat.

>>44622219>>44622180>>44622193Yeah I mean, if there ever was a time to flex your nuts and show off that you're literally an incarnation of the devil / the incubator races' personal boogeyman that ought not to be fucked with to be a pawn in other people's plans, it's now.

Chiaki gained power through a gamble with a dead girl possessing a crazy girl.

>>44622546Because Pinky is being tricked by her Godoka half into helping Chiaki. She's gonna go on giggling and shouting at Chiaki to keep on fighting and collecting golden weapons until the other boot drops right on her head and lets Godoka take over command again.

>>44622609Yeah, but now we're in the same ballpark as suggesting that everyone and their dog is from the 20th and it' all just an illusion: yeah it could be, but that'd be an unsatisfying shit plot twist and nobody likes those.

>>44622778Chiaki should just try to carry along some fresh pancakes at all times and regularly go into timestops to feed Pinky, french her (bear the teeth, it's for a good cause) and luminous her back into niceness.

>>44622800There's also not partaking of the feasts that Pinky puts together, that are meant to further corrupt Chiaki.We haven't even been working on getting our Corruption resistance up, and Pinky would know that the Golden Weapons in our possession are working against her plan if she saw that Chiaki was becoming more resistant.

>>44623018Well there you have it: a way Mami can repay her betrayal. A constant, fresh supply of Pancakes to keep the goddess of magical girls from tearing people's limbs off and gnawing them down to the bone.

>>44623525This is the most contrived shit in the whole world. it also sounds lik the perfect cover story for Kyuubey to hand out about Mami not being avaliable when the officio is coming down around him because she's emo'ing out 3hard.

Plus, in a meta sense, where Mami actually is is completely up to what Decu wants it to be, so if this angle works out smoother we might just find her in the basement ;)

>>44623616What, don'tcha think that Decu has switched things out behind the scenes because we acted unexpectedly? Malal basically told Chiaki (aka us) to her face that whatever happened to her after nhading her soul gem to Ahriman literally broke the frame of reference she had. It sounded to me like she wasn't just speaking for herself but as a little bit of Decu too.Dare a man dream.